#selves

Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

#aside #beginning #cannot #comprehended #corrupt

Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist? ↗

— Lactantius

#always #eternal #exist #gods #immortal

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#happiness #only #ourselves #purpose #squandering

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#effectively #love #masquerading #ourselves #violence

I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#chef #come #contestants #empathy #feel

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right. ↗

— Frank Langella

#get #i #right #themselves #trying

The Nobel Prize is run by a self-perpetuated committee. They vote for themselves and get the world's publishing industry to jump to their tune. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#get #industry #jump #nobel #nobel prize

Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#answer #asked #badly #been #change

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet. ↗

— Michael Winslow

#art #artists #blessing #break #curse

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited